The True Parents Legacy archive (tplegacy.net) is a non-commercial scholarly digital archive of primary-source texts of the Unification Movement. This page documents the machine-readable access points, persistent identifiers, and reuse terms for researchers, digital-humanities projects, and metadata services.
Access points at a glance
| Resource | Address / format |
|---|---|
| OAI-PMH endpoint | https://tplegacy-oai.tplegacy.workers.dev/oai — Dublin Core (oai_dc) |
| Linked Open Data dump | github.com/Jon-tplegacy/tplegacy-lod — RDF N-Triples |
| Open datasets | Zenodo · Hugging Face · Kaggle |
| Persistent identifiers | ARK (NAAN 68749), resolved via n2t.net |
| License | CC BY-NC 4.0 |
The corpus
3,700+ English-language passages — sermons, public speeches, prayers, and book excerpts — attributed to Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) and Hak Ja Han Moon (1943–present), covering the period 1946–2012. The texts are English translations of addresses originally delivered primarily in Korean. Each item carries structured Dublin Core metadata and a persistent ARK.
How to cite
Please cite individual items by their title and ARK, attributing the editorial work to the archive editor. Suggested form:
[Title]. The True Parents Legacy Archive, ed. Jon Auror. ark:/68749/[item-slug]. https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/[item-slug]
- Editor of the resource
- Jon Auror — ORCID 0009-0005-1168-3438
- Authors of the source texts
- Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012); Hak Ja Han Moon (1943–present)
- Citation export
- Every item page embeds COinS metadata, so reference managers such
as Zotero detect and import the citation automatically. Highwire Press and Dublin Core
<meta>tags are also present in each page head. - Dataset DOI
- 10.5281/zenodo.20442104 (Zenodo) — cite this for the dataset as a whole.
Metadata access — OAI-PMH
The archive exposes its metadata through an OAI-PMH 2.0 interface for harvesting by aggregators and service providers.
- Base URL
https://tplegacy-oai.tplegacy.workers.dev/oai- Metadata format
oai_dc(Simple Dublin Core)- Sets
sermons,prayers,books
Example requests:
?verb=Identify ?verb=ListSets ?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc ?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=sermons ?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&from=2025-01-01
Linked Open Data
A full RDF dump of the archive is published openly and regenerated weekly. It uses the schema.org vocabulary and links extensively to external authorities.
| File | Description |
|---|---|
tplegacy.nt | RDF dump in N-Triples (auto-updated weekly) |
void.ttl | VoID dataset description (LOD Cloud) |
stats.json | Triple and link counts |
Repository: github.com/Jon-tplegacy/tplegacy-lod.
Direct download of the dump:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jon-tplegacy/tplegacy-lod/main/tplegacy.nt
The dataset includes roughly 3,400 schema:sameAs links to Wikidata, plus links
to the n2t.net ARK resolver and to the Creative Commons license. The archive is registered on the
LOD Cloud (Publications domain) and described in Wikidata as
Q138757400. Items are also connected to
one another through an internal cross-reference and citation graph.
Open datasets for reuse
The corpus is also published as flat datasets for computational and machine-learning use:
- Hugging Face
- huggingface.co/datasets/JonAuror/tplegacy-teachings — JSONL text corpus
- Kaggle
- kaggle.com/datasets/jonauror/…sermons-and-speeches-1946-2012
- Zenodo
- zenodo.org/records/20442104 — archived RDF release, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20442104
Persistent identifiers
- ARK
- NAAN 68749 — each item has an ARK of the form
ark:/68749/[slug], resolvable athttps://n2t.net/ark:/68749/[slug] - ORCID (editor)
- 0009-0005-1168-3438
License & reuse
Metadata and the compiled corpus are released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Reuse for research and education is welcome with attribution; commercial use is not permitted. The underlying source texts remain the work of their original authors and may carry separate rights.
Contact
Questions about harvesting, metadata, or reuse: tplegacy.net/contact.